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Finding the Energy to Make
the Commitment
INTRODUCTION
Why are project managers not growing into C-level management
positions? e reasons may be many, including the lack of nancial,
marketing, or specic technical skills that may prove a project manager
unworthy of C-level positions. However, a more salient reason is their
unwillingness to get out of their comfort zone of schedules, tools, and
templates.
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You must be courageous to be a service-based project leader.
Courage carries a price but oers a meaningful return.
BARRIERS TO COMMITMENT
Fear of Change
Attitudes and behaviors must grow from condence, not fear. One’s atti-
tude drives t ...